I don't know what dictionary you use

American Heritgae Dictionary -online edition

you very cleverly linked to a different post of mine in that thread, maybe so people wouldn't see the entire context in which that statement of mine was made

At any rate, it is not my opinion that the government of Israel or any other Israelis are committing genocide against the Palestinians.

If the link I provided to that thread led to a different post, there was nothing "clever" about it. It was just inexperience with the "make a link ("blue clicky") feature. In any case, if I'd been trying to keep anyone from seeing the context of your message, I would not have provided the exact reference as to date and time.

You are the one who has, in fact, said the Israelis are committing genocide. As noted, you've capitalized, in Internet convention, screamed "GENOCIDE."

what the Israeli soldiers and settlers are doing to innocent Palestinians must be described as GENOCIDE.

-CarolC, 23 Jul 03 - 11:17 AM

If they do succeed in removing all of the Palestinians from Israel and the Occupied Territories, then they will be guilty of ethnic cleansing.

Despite the occasional statements of a few Isreali extremists, with little popular support, Israel has never attempted to remove the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Furthermore, as you probably well know, Israel has a substantial population of Arabs whose families stayed in 1948. They have full rights of citizenship and are proportionatly represented in the Israeli Knesset. Your statement is a lie meant to inflame and cause hatred.